Annual Report 2009 (1 MB, pdf) - Vasco

Our Products
VACMAN Product Line
The VACMAN product line incorporates a range of strong authentication utilities and solutions
designed to allow organizations to add DIGIPASS strong authentication into their existing networks and
applications.
In order to provide the greatest flexibility, without compromising on functionality or security,
VACMAN solutions are designed to integrate with most popular hardware and software. Once integrated, the
VACMAN components become largely transparent to the users, minimizing rollout and support issues.
VACMAN Controller
VACMAN Controller is the backbone of VASCO’s product strategy towards the banking and
e-commerce markets. VACMAN Controller encompasses all four authentication technologies
(passwords, dynamic password technologies, certificates and biometrics) and allows our customers to
use any combination of those technologies simultaneously. VACMAN Controller is natively embedded
in or compatible with the solutions of over 100 VASCO solution partners.
Designed by specialists in “system entry” security, VACMAN Controller makes it easy to
administer a high level of access control and allows our customers to match the level of authentication
security used with their perceived risk for each user of their application. Our customer simply adds a
field to his or her existing user database, describing the authentication technology used and, if
applicable, the unique DIGIPASS token assigned to the end user of their application. VACMAN
Controller takes it from there, automatically authenticating the logon request using the security
sequence the user specifies, whether it’s a one-time password using either response-only or a challenge/
response authentication scheme or an electronic signature.
VACMAN Controller allows the user the freedom to provide secure remote access to virtually any
type of application. VACMAN Controller is a library requiring only a few days to implement in most
systems and supports all DIGIPASS functionality. Once linked to an application, VACMAN Controller
automatically handles login requests from any users authorized to have a DIGIPASS.
VACMAN Middleware
For organizations of all sizes that need to authenticate remote users for access to enterprise
networks and their applications, VACMAN Middleware is a software suite used to verify
authentication requests and to centrally administer user authentication policies. Unlike other
authentication solutions, VACMAN Middleware—together with VASCO’s DIGIPASS family—
provides affordable strong authentication and secure access to web applications, business applications
and VPN.
VACMAN Middleware in combination with DIGIPASS authenticators eliminates the weakest link
in any security structure, the use of static passwords. It’s a turnkey solution that can be up and running
in minutes, not hours or weeks.
The main authentication tool in a VACMAN Middleware enabled infrastructure remains the
Active Directory service. The storage of the DIGIPASS related data is linked with the users in the
Active Directory. As a result, a scalable approach is achieved and an optimal support is provided for
multiple domains and delegated administration. VACMAN Middleware supports Open DataBase
Connectivity (ODBC) compliant databases, such as Oracle 9iTM , Microsoft ® SQL server 2000 and
2005, IBM DB2 8.1, Sybase ® Adaptive Server Anywhere 9.0 and PostgreSQL 8.0 and 8.1. VACMAN
Middleware is delivered with PostgreSQL update database release versions.
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